Charged With Drug

Howard County police arrested 32 people on drug-related charges Wednesday night at a Dead concert at Merriweather Post Pavilion. Twenty-four people were arrested and charged with illegal possession of controlled dangerous substances, and eight were arrested and charged with distribution of controlled dangerous substances, police said. Officers also seized $1,200 in money and drugs, including LSD, PCP and marijuana, police said. The Dead is made up mainly of members of the now defunct Grateful Dead rock group.

Two Baltimore police officers have been charged with assaulting a man last year after he fled a drug arrest and tried to hide in one of the officers' girlfriend's home. Sgt. Marinos N. Gialamas and Officer Anthony Williams, who was off duty at the time, are charged with the second-degree assault of a 32-year-old man inside the East Baltimore home of Williams' girlfriend. Gialamas, 40, an 18-year veteran, is also accused of three counts of misconduct, while Williams, 37, a five-year veteran, was charged with obstructing and hindering an investigation.

Complaints by area residents that drugs were being sold from park benches near a community playground led to the arrest of a Harmans man Tuesday, authorities said.Residents in the Still Meadows neighborhood called police shortly before noon and told officers that two men sitting on park benches near the playground between Blue Jay Court and Jacobs Road were selling drugs.The men began running as Officers Michelle McBride and Herbert Hasenpusch approached them, but one of them -- who was holding his right jacket pocket as he fled -- was caught and arrested, police said.

An Anne Arundel County police surveillance team has charged two men with drug possession in a Brooklyn Park neighborhood. Kevin Charles Brown, 32, of the 6000 block of Amberwood Court in the city's Frankford neighborhood, faces two counts of heroin possession and one count of intent to distribute. Dale Charles Edge, 30, of the 100 block of Lincoln Ave. in Glen Burnie, was charged with possession of heroin. Officers, responding to numerous residents' complaints of drug activity, set up surveillance Tuesday in the area near First Avenue and Ritchie Highway.

A Catonsville dentist faces up to 20 years in prison after being charged with dealing Hydrocodone from his office and home. Kenneth Brian Riley, 49, was charged Friday with distribution of the prescription painkiller, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court of Baltimore. Riley, a dentist since 1989, had reportedly sold a police confidential source approximately 500 to 1,000 Hydrocodone tablets a week from his office and home since 2006, according to the affidavit.

By Justin Fenton and Justin Fenton,justin.fenton@baltsun.com | June 20, 2009

A Baltimore man was arrested Thursday after officers found drugs, a handgun and ammunition in a home where two children ages 4 and 6 were locked inside, police said. Corey Baker, 39, of the 2600 block of Seamon Ave., was stopped by officers on patrol in Cherry Hill and admitted that he was in possession of marijuana, police said. He was arrested and then told the officers that his children were home alone. Officers responded to the home with Baker to check on the safety of the children.

By Justin Fenton and Justin Fenton,justin.fenton@baltsun.com | November 13, 2008

A 33-year-old man shot in Baltimore 12 years ago, who was paralyzed from the waist down, died of complications related to his injuries, police said. Valando Goodman was shot April 14, 1996, after getting into an argument in the 2200 block of Jefferson St. in East Baltimore. His attackers were never found. He died July 29 this year, and the medical examiner's office determined the next month that the death was a result of the shooting. The death counts against this year's homicide tally.

Police charge 3, seize drugs in Annapolis Police seized 25 grams of apparent crack cocaine from the Clay Street home of a suspected drug dealer Tuesday, Annapolis police said. On Monday morning, officers witnessed what appeared to be a drug deal between a pedestrian and a man in a car near the intersection of Clay and Pleasant Streets. Police found a small amount of crack cocaine in the center console of the car and charged the driver, John E. Edwards, 53, of Reidsville, N.C., with drug possession and seized his Honda Civic, police said.

Two Morgan State University students were arrested and charged with possession of narcotics and possession of a deadly weapon after they were pulled over Sunday night, city police said. About 10:30 p.m., Sgt. Dennis Workley and Officer Antonio Cirillo, both of the Northeastern District, stopped the driver of a 2004 Acura TSX for exceeding the speed limit in the 4100 block of Moravia Road near Belair Road, police said. Workley said the car was traveling well over the 25 mph limit when it was stopped.

Freshman attackman Travis Reed was charged with driving under the influence and possession of marijuana, forcing the Maryland men's lacrosse team to suspend its leading goal scorer Friday night. As first reported by The Diamondback, the university newspaper, Reed, a Boys' Latin graduate, was driving a motorized scooter in the parking lot of a convenience store on Knox Road in College Park when he was stopped by police about 2:20 a.m. Thursday. During a search, marijuana was found in Reed's possession.

The son of the civil rights director for the Maryland attorney general's office is facing drug charges after police searched the home he shares with his father during a drug sweep, police said. Police charged Kojo Lummuba Malik Snowden, 22, son of Carl O. Snowden, with possession and intent to distribute marijuana last week as part of an undercover investigation that included more than 30 drug buys throughout the city. Details of those charges, which police said resulted from a three-month investigation of drug dealing in the city, were sealed.